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It's been more than five years since we last got to spend time in J.K. Rowling's wizarding world on the big screen, and this adventure of magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) throws the audience right back into the thick of it. Inspired by the first-year required reading book at Hogwarts of the same name, the film while not perfect is still a great return to the world of magic and the various creatures and races that inhabit it.

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Doctor Strange is Marvel's latest entry into the pantheon of their wider Cinematic Universe which includes all of the films other than the X-Men and Fantastic Four (both franchises are both held in a death grip by Fox) and until his appearance in Captian America: Civil War, Spiderman (which is only loosely being held[...]

Titanfall was an excellent game. It was hurt by a lack of content both without a single player campaign and in-depth multiplayer progression, but the

Battlefield is a franchise that has always impressed me immensely. It's focus on huge scale online matches and utterly breathtaking graphical capabilities

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] One thing we rarely expect to find when dealing with sequels and prequels to below-average horror films is that they're an improvement over the original Generally the best that can be hoped for is that it's at least on par with whatever came before Ouija: Origin of Evil is one of those rare unicorns[...]

Gears of War is a special series. Perhaps that sounds hyperbolic, as some might make fun of it for being a meatheaded Michael Bay-like blockbuster, with

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] While we've never been sold on Ben Affleck's performance as Batman, his latest performance as Christian Wolff in The Accountant is a wonderful case of casting One doesn't typically think of pen-pushing accountants as being the most effective (or exciting) of roles for a top crime world agent, but the script by Bill Dubuque under[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] At this point Canadian director Denis Villeneuve seems to be just showing off Nearly every one of his feature films have garnered some level of award season consideration, including three academy award nominations on his last round out with Sicario Now with his latest film, Arrival, it feels that the bar is already suitably high[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The irony of the use of the title The Birth of a Nation is not lost on viewers today: the 1915 film (so just over a century ago) with the same title had been a tale of the founding of the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic force to help save the perceived oppressed[...]

Jonathan Rich writes for Bleeding Cool … Train to Busan has been in limited release for some weeks now, but when it comes to your local theater, streaming

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] It feels like only a few years ago that the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon's damaged wellhead was spreading across the Gulf of Mexico like an ever-expanding zombie outbreak But for all that we know about the spill and it's aftermath, the details around what happened leading up to the explosion and destruction[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] With the continued popularity of the Walking Dead, there's been no lack of zombie films and television shows over the last few years Unfortunately they're typically incredibly lackluster, with most just running variations of a handful of well-worn story themes Sometimes there's just ones that are exceptionally exciting like Train to Busan, but most[...]

I like so much about it, but squandered potential is even more frustrating for a reviewer than a straight up terrible title Seeing something reach for the stars and squander the promise of its ideas is heartbreaking and it is something I saw Variable State's debut effort do over and over. So what is Virginia? This[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Don't Breathe turns one thing that's common in the horror genre on it's head: most often films will start with a solid concept, but then they break down by the third act into a typical cat and mouse game and too often with leaps of logic to tie the ends together Breathe decides to[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The catalog of films which involves one or two intrepid but down on their luck fellows that suddenly come across a get rich quick idea is hardly a limited one They vary from the smart and clever to the funny to the ironic War Dogs is one of the cut from the headlines variety,[...]